A healthy diet is one that helps maintain or improve health. It is important for lowering many chronic health risks‚ such as obesity‚ heart disease‚ diabetes‚ hypertension and cancer.[1] A healthy diet involves consuming appropriate amounts of all essential nutrients and an adequate amount of water. Nutrients can be obtained from many different foods‚ so there are numerous diets that may be considered healthy. A healthy diet needs to have a balance of macronutrients (fats‚ proteins‚ and carbohydrates)
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The Atkins Diet is a diet where you eat less carbohydrates and more fats and proteins so; your body goes into Metabolic State and starts to burn fat instead of carbohydrates. 1. Many health problems can occur including blood problems‚ vomiting‚ bad breath‚ constipation‚ kidney problems and heart attacks. The one that I will be focusing on today is the higher risk of heart attacks. According to BHF (The British Heart Foundation)‚ when they competed a study‚ they found out than an additional four
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ATKINS DIET ANALYSIS Phuong Nguyen NUTR 1322 Friday 6pm What is Atkins Diet? The Atkins Diet is also known as the Atkins Nutritional Approach. It was made by Dr. Atkins‚ an American cardiologist. Atkins Diet was developed by reducing one’s carbohydrate intake. The body is an engine; carbs are the gas that makes it go. Low carb –Atkins is a modern and science diet based on energy metabolism. The principle of this mode is to cut the total amount of carbohydrates in the body because carbohydrates
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Over the last few months there has been a lot of talk about the best diet. (Check out U.S. News’ evaluation of 20 popular diets‚ for instance -- the DASH diet came out on top.) But what about those diets that didn’t make the cut ... by a longshot? While it’s great to know what we should be doing to make healthy eating choices (especially since 66 percent of adults in the U.S. are overweight or obese)‚ it’s clear that societal pressures to look a certain way (read: thin) push people to look for quick
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Final Draft Compare and Contrast: Unhealthy Diets Fast food as we all know; its tasty‚ handy‚ and inexpensive. In our day and age it is extremely easy to maintain an unhealthy diet‚ as opposed to a healthy one. There are some main factors to why‚ unhealthy and fast food is cheap and easy to get‚ second reason is because fast food is located almost everywhere and the advertisements can be very persuading‚ and last is because people simply do not have enough time to make a home cooked meal. This overall
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03/10/13 FSN429 Follow The Diet Assigned Diet Plan: It is your 55th birthday and your recent doctor’s visit alerted you of the fact you have HTN and are very overweight. In order to keep CVD at bay‚ your doctor recommended the following diet: 20-25 kcal/kg‚ .8 g pro ( or- 15% kcals as pro)‚ 30% kcal from fat ( follow TLC guidelines) and 1500 mg Na. Be sure to eat no less than 35 gm fiber/d. 1. Meal Pattern A. wt: 184# ( 84 kg) Ht: 6’0” (72 in/ 183 cm/ 1.83 m) Age: 22 YOWM
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The Paleo Diet There are plenty of diets which are believed to be good for health. The Paleo diet is one of them‚ which is based on a unique and interesting theory. It comes from the eating habit in the Paleaolithic times‚ and the proponents believe it is the best diet for modern people to keep themselves healthy. Over 10‚000 years ago‚ humans ate only what they hunt and gathered‚ such as animals‚ nuts and berries. It is after the advent of agriculture that humans began to eat grains‚ legumes‚
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The Paleolithic Diet You see it every day‚ someone goes to grocery store grabs a box of Mac and Cheese some frozen burgers and goes home to make their families dinner for that evening. But what did man do before processed food was available? Even more so‚ what did man do before the agricultural revolution almost 10’000 years ago? The term “Hunter-Gatherer” is almost lost to the modern world‚ something that you only hear about in stories of our past or in fictional recollections. Another question
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balanced diet is one that provides a good intake of energy and nutrients for maintenance of the body and for the good health. A diet can easily support normal body functioning‚ yet may not be a balanced diet. An ideal human diet contains fat‚ protein‚ carbohydrates‚ vitamins‚ minerals‚ water and fibre all in correct proportions. These proportions vary for each individual because everyone has different type of metabolic style and levels of activity. Malnutrition results from an unbalanced diet‚ this
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THE ATHLETE’S DIET I think that this topic is many important‚ not only for the athletes‚ also for all of us because we are the second country with obesity nowadays. So what I think about the diets in general‚ is that they are goods because with all of those meals we have to eat we will be healthier and with the right weight according to our organism. Many teenagers specially the girls make diets only for lose weight but they do not go with a nutriologist and of course they don’t know how to make
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